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1. A PROJECT BY CLASS C3,4(Beg.)
TEACHER IN CHARGE: EFI KONSTANTINOU
THE SIGHTS OF LONDON

2. ΜΑΡΙΑ ΣΟΥΓΙΟΥΛΤΖΗ,
ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΙΑ ΤΣΟΛΑΚΙΔΟΥ,
ΑΓΓΕΛΙΚΗ ΜΟΣΧΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ,
ΚΕΛΛΥ ΧΑΤΖΗΜΗΤΑΚΟΥ,
ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΑ ΠΑΠΑΔΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ

3. St Paul’s CATHEDRAL
St Paul's Cathedral, London, is an Anglican
cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of London and the
mother church of the Diocese of London. It sits at
the top of Ludgate Hill, the highest point in the City
of London.

5. There was a late-Roman episcopal see in London,
and Bishop Restitutus of London attended the
Council of Arles in AD 314.
 The location of Roman London's cathedral is
unknown, although it has been argued that a large
and ornate 5th-century building on Tower Hill,
remains of which were excavated in 1999, may have
been the cathedral.

8. Piccadilly Circus is a road junction and public space
of London's West End in the City of Westminster,
built in 1819 to connect Regent Street with Piccadilly.
In this context, a circus, from the Latin word
meaning "circle", is a round open space at a street
junction.
The street was known as Portugal Street in 1692 in
honour of Catherine of Braganza, the queen consort
of King Charles II of England but was known as
Piccadilly by 1743.

10. Piccadilly Circus connects to Piccadilly, a
thoroughfare whose name first appeared in
1626 as Piccadilly Hall, named after a house
belonging to one Robert Baker, a tailor famous
for selling piccadills, or piccadillies, a term
used for various kinds of collars.

12. Greenwich is a district of South East London, England,
located in the Royal Borough of Greenwich and situated
5.5 miles (8.9 km) east south-east of Charing Cross.
Greenwich is notable for its maritime history and for
giving its name to the Greenwich Meridian (0° longitude)
and Greenwich Mean Time. The town became the site of
a royal palace, the Palace of Placentia from the 15th
century, and was the birthplace of many Tudors,
including Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.

14.  The town became a popular resort in the 18th century
and many grand houses were built there, such as
Vanbrugh Castle (1717) established on Maze Hill, next to
the park. From the Georgian period estates of houses
were constructed above the town centre.
 The maritime connections of Greenwich were celebrated
in the 20th century, with the siting of the Cutty Sark and
Gipsy Moth IV next to the river front, and the National
Maritime Museum in the former buildings of the Royal
Hospital School in 1934.
 Greenwich formed part of Kent until 1889 when the
County of London was created.

15. A PROJECT BY :
AGGELIKI
CHAMAMTZOGLOY
CHARA FRANZANA
SOFIA CHALMOUKI

16. Madame Tussaud

17. Is a major tourist
attraction in
London, displaying
waxworks of
historical and royal
figures, film stars,
sports stars and
infamous murderers
. Is owned and
operated by Merlin
Entertainments.
Madame Tussaud’s is
a wax museum in
London with branches in
a number of major cities.
It was founded
by wax sculptor Marie
Tussaud and was
formerly known as
"Madame Tussaud's” .

18. Marie Tussaud was born as Marie
Grosholtz in 1760 in France. Her
mother worked as a housekeeper
for Dr. Philippe Curtius in Bern,
Switzerland, who was a
physician skilled in wax
modelling . Curtius taught
Tussaud the art of wax modelling.

19. Tussaud created her first wax
sculpture, of Voltaire, in
1777. Other famous people
she modelled at that time
include Jean-Jacques
Rousseau and Benjamin
Franklin. During
the French Revolution she
modelled many prominent
victims. In her memoirs
she claims that she would
search through corpses to
find the severed heads of
executed citizens, from
which she would
make death masks. Her
death masks were held up
as revolutionary flags and
paraded through the
streets of Paris.

20. Following the doctor's death in 1794, she inherited his
vast collection of wax models and spent the next 33
years travelling around Europe. She married to
Francois Tussaud in 1795 lent a new name to the
show: Madame Tussaud's. In 1802 she went to
London, having accepted an invitation from Paul
Philidor, a magic lantern and phantasmagoria pioneer,
to exhibit her work alongside his show at the Lyceum
Theatre, London .

26. Favorite of Miss
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28. The Buckingham Palace

29. Originally known as Buckingham
House, the building which forms
the core of today's palace was a
large townhouse built for the
Duke of Buckingham in 1703 on a
site which had been in private
ownership for at least 150 years. It
was subsequently acquired by
King George III in 1761 as a
private residence for Queen
Charlotte and was known as "The
Queen's House".

30. During the 19th century it
was enlarged, principally by
architects John Nash and
Edward Blore, who formed
three wings around a
central courtyard.
Buckingham Palace finally
became the official royal
palace of the British
monarch on the accession
of Queen Victoria in 1837.

32. CHANGING GUARDS IS TAKING PLACE IN BUCKINGHAM
PALACE

33. Buckingham Palace inside
Buckingham Palace has 775 rooms. These include 19
State rooms, 52 Royal and guest bedrooms, 188
staff bedrooms, 92 offices and 78 bathrooms. In
measurements, the building is 108 metres long
across the front, 120 metres deep (including the
central quadrangle) and 24 metres high.

34. Buckingham Palace today
Buckingham Palace has served as the official
London residence of Britain's sovereigns since
1837 and today is the administrative
headquarters of the Monarch. Although in use
for the many official events and receptions held
by The Queen, the State Rooms at Buckingham
Palace are open to visitors every year. For
visitor information, please visit the Royal
Collection website.

35. THE SIGHTS OF LONDON
Μέλη ομάδας:
Χαρά Σημαιοφορίδου
Ελευθερία Μίσιου
Μαρία Μακαμτζή
Δημήτρης Τροχίδης
Βασίλης Χατζηνικολάου
Υπεύθυνη καθηγήτρια:
Έφη Κωνσταντίνου

36. The London Eye

37. The London Eye was built as part of the celebrations in 2000, the millennium year. One
thousand seven hundred tons of steel had been used to make the Eye and it was opened on
31st
December, 1999. Since then, millions of people have taken a ride on the London Eye.

38. Many London landmarks, such as
Buckingham Palace, St Paul’s
Cathedral and Big Ben, can be seen
from the Eye. It is one of the most
popular tourist attractions in London.

39. The Eye has done for London what the Eiffel Tower did for
Paris, which is to give it a symbol and to let people climb
above the city and look back down on it. Not just specialists
or rich people, but everybody. That's the beauty of it: it is
public and accessible, and it is in a great position at the
heart of London...

40. Tower of London

41. The Tower of London is an ancient Norman stone fortress in London, England. It
stands on the bank of the River Thames, in the oldest part of the city.

44. History of the Tower
The fortress was built by William the Conqueror, King William I,
starting in 1078. The moat was built by Richard I, using water diverted
from the River Thames.
The Tower had many uses. Its main function was to protect Norman
rule in the years after the conquest. It was a prison, and a place of
execution. Today, the Crown Jewels are kept there. This is the
collection of jewels owned by the British state, and sometimes worn
by the monarch. There is also a museum of armour.

45. Tower of London at night

47. HMS Belfast

48. HMS Belfast is a museum ship, originally a Royal Navy light
cruiser, permanently moored in London on the River
Thames and operated by the Imperial War Museum.

49.  HMS Belfast was built by Messrs Harland & Wolff of
Belfast in 1936. Anne Chamberlain, wife of the then
Prime Minister launched Be lfast on on St Patrick’s
Day in1938. After fitting out and builder’s trials
HMS Be lfast was commissioned into the Royal Navy
on 5 August 1939 under the command of Captain G A
Scott DSO RN.
 Designed for the protection of trade and offensive
action she was immediately called into service
patrolling the northern waters in efforts to impose a
maritime blockade on Germany. However, disaster
struck after only two months at sea when HMS
Belfast hit a magnetic mine. There were few
casualties but the damage to her hull was so severe
she was out of action for three years.

50. After the Second World War HMS Be lfast played an
active role in the Korean War from 1950-1952 working
with other Allied Forces to support the retreating
American and South Korean troops. Her final years were
spent performing peace-keeping duties until she was
retired from service in 1963.

52. Trafalgar Square is a public space and tourist
attraction in central London, built around the area
formerly known as Charing Cross. It is situated in the City
of Westminster. At its centre is Nelson's Column, which
is guarded by four lion statues at its base. There are a
number of commemorative statues and sculptures in the
square, while one plinth, left empty since it was built in
1840, The Fourth Plinth , has been host to contemporary
art since 1999. The square gatherings, such as the
celebration of New Year’s Evis also used for political
demonstrations and community e.
The name commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar, a British
naval victory of the Napoleonic Wars over France and
Spain which took place on 21 October 1805 off the coast of
Cape Trafalgar. The original name was to have been "King
William the Fourth's Square", but George Ledwel Taylor
suggested the name "Trafalgar Square".

53. In the 1820s George IV engaged the architect
John Nash to redevelop the area. Nash
cleared the square as part of his Charing
Cross Improvement Scheme. The present
architecture of the square is due to Sir Charles
Barry and was completed in 1845.
Trafalgar Square is owned by the
Westminster City Council who own the roads
around the square, including the
pedestrianised area ueen in Right of the
Crown and managed by the Greater London
Authority, while of the North Terrace. It forms
part of the North bank business improvement
district.

54. Tower BridgeTower Bridge

55. Tower Bridge (built 1886–1894) is a combined bascule and
suspension bridge in London which crosses the River Thames.
It is close to the Tower of London, from which it takes its name,
and has become an iconic symbol of London.
The bridge consists of two towers tied together at the upper
level by means of two horizontal walkways, designed to
withstand the horizontal forces exerted by the suspended
sections of the bridge on the landward sides of the towers. The
vertical component of the forces in the suspended sections and
the vertical reactions of the two walkways are carried by the
two robust towers. The bascule pivots and operating
machinery are housed in the base of each tower1977, when it
was painted red, white an. The bridge's present colour scheme
dates from d blue for Queen Elizabeth II's silver jubilee.
Originally it was painted a mid greenish-blue colour.

56. The nearest London Underground tube stations are Tower Hill on the Circle
and District line, London Bridge and Bermondsey and the nearest
Docklands Light Railway station is Tower Gateway.

57. Big Ben
Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the clock at
the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London and
often extended to refer to the clock and the clock tower.
The tower is officially known as the Elizabeth Tower,
renamed as such to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of
Elizabeth II (prior to being renamed in 2012 it was known
as simply "Clock Tower"). The tower holds the largest
four-faced chiming clock in the world and is the third-
tallest free-standing clock tower. The tower was completed
in 1858 and had its 150th anniversary on 31 May 2009,
during which celebratory events took place. The tower has
become one of the most prominent symbols of the United
Kingdom and is often in the establishing shot of films set in
London.

60. #team 3.k.t.
Nikos Basdanis
Panos Mitsioulis
Giannis Panagiotou
Panos Berberidis
Dimitris Mitsioilis
Our teacher: Efi Konstantinou
THANKS!!!